Improvement in pasteboard packing-boxes



JOHN W. TUTTLE, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PASTEBOARD PACKING-BOXES.

Specication forming part of Lctterslatent No. 117,349, dated July 25,1871.

' Improvement in Paper or Pasteboard Packing- Boxes; and do herebydeclare the same to be fully described in the followin g specificationand represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure l denotesan end view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of a packing-box andcover provided with my invention. Fig. 3 is an end view of the cover;Fig. 4, an end view of the box or body part thereof. i

In carrying out my present invention I for each end or side of the coverA with a segmental slot or opening, a., going through it. I alsoconstruct the body of the box, at each of the opposite ends or sides,with similarly-shaped projections b b, which maybe formed by makingareal cuts through the end or side ofthe box and bending outward ontheir chords lthe segments included within such arca-l cuts. A thincovering, c, of cloth or paper, may be pasted over each of suchsegmental openings in the ends or sides of the body, so as to close theopening; and, if desirable, there may be a stuffing of paper or other- Ywise introduced between the covering and the part cut and pressed out,the stuffing being to fill the space between the two. I generally preferto dispense with the paper covering and the stufling, and to leave theprojecting part b iiexible, or with' its inherent elasticity, in 'orderto enable it to be pressed inward when necessary. The segmental holes inthe cover and the segmental projections of the body of the box are to beso arranged that, on pulling the cover on the body, the projections maybe caused to' enter the holes and with them serve to hold the cover` inplace on the body. By pressing inward the end or side of the box Wheresuch a projection may be, the latter may be forced out of its hole inthe cover, so as to allow of the cover being easily removed from thebody.

as set forth.

The object or purpose of my additions to the common pasteboard box is todispense with the employment of strings, fastenings, or wrappers, suchas ordinarily used, or are commonly employed by packers or others, forconning the covers to the bodies of packing-boxes.

. Common pasteboard packing-boxes, as generally made, and as used bymanufacturers, or in stores or elsewhere, for the package orpreservation of small wares or light articles of merchandise, are veryliable to have ltheir covers displaced from the bodies. As a consequencethis necessitates the employment of strings or other fastenings goingwholly or partially around the boxes; such methods of confining thecovers in place being oftentimes expensive and attendant with loss oftime and material, which by my invention are saved; and, furthermore, myinvention saves the labor and time required for relieving the covers ofsuch means or methods of retaining them in place, and is a valuable andvery important improvement, as, for all. ordinary purposes, the coverwill be kept in place without the necessity of being Wrapped or tieddown upon the body.

In some respects my present invention is ana-logous to that for whichLetters Patent No. 101,546, dated April 5, 1870, have been granted tome. It differs therefrom, however, in having the segmental cuts or holesmade through the sides or ends of the cover, and to operate with thesegmental projections formed on the body,

p I herein make no claim to the subject of such patent.

What I claim as my present invention is- The improved pasteboardpacking-box, as provided with slots arranged through the sides or endsof its cover, as described, and with correspondin g projections to entersuch,arran ged and formed on or from the body, as set forth.

JOHN W. TUTTLE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. It. Snow.

